He is 27yo, gorgeous and very naughty we heard! Last month he apologized to Hillary Clinton (scroll down to find out why). Immensely talented, this boyish beer-drinking, (and manhunting?)a gay-Dupont Circle-resident, Jon Favreau , is working very hard these days to make sure Obama sounds good and looks good on his inauguration day in Washington DC. Still more daunting is the list of things Favreau can't think about as he writes the inaugural. He went for a run to the Lincoln Memorial last month and stopped in his tracks when he imagined the mall packed with 3 million people listening to some of his words. A few weeks later, Favs winced when Obama spokesman Bill Burton reminded him: "Dude, what you're writing is going to be hung up in people's living rooms!"
"If you start thinking about what's at stake, it can get paralyzing," Favs said.
He is the youngest person ever to be named chief White House speechwriter. (see Obama's victory speech below)Favs, as he is affectionately known in Washington these days, looks every bit his age, with a baby face and closely shorn stubble. And he leads a team of two other young speechwriters: 26-year-old Adam Frankel, who worked with John F. Kennedy’s adviser and speechwriter Theodore C. Sorensen on his memoirs, and Ben Rhodes, who, at 30, calls himself the “elder statesman” of the group and who helped write the Iraq Study Group report as an assistant to Lee H. Hamilton. Favs is working on the inaugural address. The job requires him to work unnoticed, even in plain view, so Favs settles into a wooden chair at a busy Starbucks in the center of Penn Quarter. Deadline looms, and he needs to write at least half a page by the end of the day. As the espresso machines whir, Favs opens his laptop, calls up a document titled "rough draft of inaugural" and goes to work on the most anticipated speech of Barack Obama's life.
To read Obama's victory speech written by Favs, google it with keywords "obama's victory speech"
"If you start thinking about what's at stake, it can get paralyzing," Favs said.
He is the youngest person ever to be named chief White House speechwriter. (see Obama's victory speech below)Favs, as he is affectionately known in Washington these days, looks every bit his age, with a baby face and closely shorn stubble. And he leads a team of two other young speechwriters: 26-year-old Adam Frankel, who worked with John F. Kennedy’s adviser and speechwriter Theodore C. Sorensen on his memoirs, and Ben Rhodes, who, at 30, calls himself the “elder statesman” of the group and who helped write the Iraq Study Group report as an assistant to Lee H. Hamilton. Favs is working on the inaugural address. The job requires him to work unnoticed, even in plain view, so Favs settles into a wooden chair at a busy Starbucks in the center of Penn Quarter. Deadline looms, and he needs to write at least half a page by the end of the day. As the espresso machines whir, Favs opens his laptop, calls up a document titled "rough draft of inaugural" and goes to work on the most anticipated speech of Barack Obama's life.To read Obama's victory speech written by Favs, google it with keywords "obama's victory speech"
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